Netflix has a handful of wildly popular shows, but none of them are as wackily pulpy as “The Umbrella Academy.” Based on the Dark Horse Comics series of the same name, the show centers around a batch of dysfunctional superheroes who time travel to stave off apocalypses.
They’re a surrogate family of sorts, all adopted after the mysterious event that caused their birth by a wealthy industrialist who’s also an extra-dimensional being.
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